On (04/24/09 17:57), Erik Nordmark wrote:
> Note however that enabled/disabled is an administrative notion has in my  
> mind it has nothing to do with recovering from DAD failures!

correct. For dad we'd have the "refresh" command.

> I suspect the kernel needs some work before we fully endorse the  
> disable-address. For instance, today IPv6 assumes that the link-local  
> lives on :0, but what happens when :0 is disabled? (I guess some kernel  
> code just blasts along using that disabled address.)

today the kernel just disables all the ipv6 addresses - in.ndpd
notices that the link-local disappeard and takes down the all
the autoconfigured addrs... we should
retain that behavior
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